Stock Market Today Shows Wide Gains Across Major Issues
New York stock averages rose with many issues posting gains at midday. Notable performers include IBM at 230 percent, Exxon at 92 percent, General Electric at 50 percent, and Dow components like General Motors and Ford Motor near mixed levels as traders track tech, industrials, and energy sectors.
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New York
UPI
SO Ind
AlldChem
Stude
AllisChal
Texaco
Alcoa
Utd Corp
Pwr
US Steel
T&t
West UN
Avco
Wickes
Woolwrth
Bendix
Jones
Beth Sdl
Indus
Boeing
Columbas
ComwEd
Comsat
CPC Intl
Dana
Deere
du Pont
Eastman
ElPaso NG
Exxon
Firestone
Fruehauf
GenDyna
Elec
Gen Tire
Goodrich
Goodyear
Gulf Oil
IBM
Harv
Nick
Towa P&l
Johnson
Kennecott
Kopper
Kresge
Kroger
Litton
Lockhol
Mar Oil
Marcor
Maytag
Merck
MinnMin
Mobil Oil
Monsanto
Nat Bisc
Olin Corp
Owens-Ill
Penn Cen
Penney
PepsiCola
Pfizer
Phil Pet
Procterg
RCA
Revlon
Rockwell
Safeway
St. Regis
San Ferid
Sears
Shell Oil
Simmons
So Pac
Sperry
Omaha Livestock Prices and Monday Estimates
UPI reports Omaha livestock: hogs 3,500 with price ranges for No 1-3 and No 2-3 at various weights, sows lower, cattle and calves 1,800 with small slaughter supply, feeder cattle predominant. sheep none. Monday estimates show cattle and calves at 7,500, hogs at 6,000, and sheep at 800.
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Omaha
Columbus 9 Telegram classifieds and mailing info
Local newspaper details subscription rates $2.75 monthly by carrier and $17 annual in Platte Boone Butler Colfax Merrick Nance Polk counties $28 elsewhere. Notices include change of address and a missing Telegram call line with hours.
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Columbus
Neb
Platte
Boone
Butler
Colfax
Merrick
Nance
Polk
Nebraska
Columbus Telegram
Ford vows to push for lower trade barriers abroad
President Ford, replying to recession and unemployment pressures, commits to resist protectionism and press for lower trade barriers. He backs multilateral talks in Geneva as a path to a better world trading system and urges continued global interdependence. Ford prepares for the State of the Union address to Congress on January 19.
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Washington
UPI
Ford
United States
Geneva
Congress
Chambers proposes bill to abolish death penalty
Sen. Ernest Chambers of Omaha introduces LB702 in Lincoln aiming to abolish capital punishment in Nebraska. He argues the punishment is unfair and notes the 1974 unicameral statute allows death for certain crimes but should be repealed despite national court rulings.
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Chambers
Lincoln
Neb
UPI
Ernest Chambers
Omaha
U. S. Supreme Court
High Court
Marine Corps report flags drop in quality and rising discipline issues
A UPI report from Washington notes the Marine Corps faces declining overall quality, more discipline problems, and higher drug use and desertion. The all volunteer force after 1973, recruitment challenges and irregular practices by some recruiters are cited as contributing factors.
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John Milne Washington
UPI
Marine Corps
Congress
Sam Nunn
D-Ga
Lewis Wilson
Nebraska senators seek pay raises for judges
State Sens. Donald Dworak and John Savage introduced LB697 proposing salary hikes in January 1977 for district and juvenile court judges from 32,500 to 37,500, Lincoln and Omaha municipal judges from 29,500 to 34,500, workmen’s compensation court judges from 30,500 to 35,500, and Nebraska Supreme Court justices from 35,500 to 40,500.
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Lincoln, Neb
UPI
Donald Dworak
Columbus
John Savage
Omaha
District Court
Lincoln
Workmens Compensation Court
Nebraska Supreme Court
Dworak proposes beer and wine on premises license bill
Senator Donald Dworak of Columbus introduces LB701 to allow eating establishments to serve wine with meals. The bill creates a new beer and wine on premises license with fees from 20 to 200 based on city population, targeting pizza places and Italian restaurants that want wine without full liquor licenses.
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Lincoln
Neb
UPI
Donald Dworak
Columbus
Dvorak
Pizza Place
Dworak
Polk County Extension Elects Officers
Polk County Extension announces new board officers: President Richard Triba Osceola Vice President Gary Neujahr Gresham Secretary Dorothy Podliska Columbus Treasurer Rosalie Gabel Osceola. Precinct representatives include Doyle Frazier Stromsburg Elaine Anderson Pleasant Home Raymond Luchsinger Clear Creek Robert Peterson Osceola Robert Viergutz Platte. Betty Lou Conkling presides Polk County Home Extension Council meetings first Monday monthly.
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Osceola
Polk County Extension Board
Richard Triba
Gary Neujahr
Gresham
Dorothy Podliska
Columbus
Rosalie Gabel
Doyle Frazier
Stromsburg
Elaine Anderson
Pleasant Home
Raymond Luchsinger
Clear Creek
Robert Peterson
Robert Viergutz
Platte
Valley
Hackberry
Island
Canada
Betty Lou Conkling
Polk County Home Extension Council
Subzero Cold Grips Midwest and Nation
United Press International reports temperatures stayed below zero from the northern Plains to the western Great Lakes with wind chills 40 to 50 below. The cold halted septic tank explosions in Crawfordsville Iowa and closed some schools while causing weather related deaths across multiple states.
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United Press International
Crawfordsville
Iowa
Plains
Great Lakes
Rockies
Chicago
Amtrak
Creston
Green Bay
Wis
Brown County Sheriff's Department
Rio Grande Valley
Texas
Texas Panhandle
Galveston
Fugitives arrest linked to 1970 Wisconsin bombing
David Fine, 23, once an SDS activist and UW reporter, was ordered held on 1 million dollar bond and flown to Madison for charges in the Army Mathematics Research Center bombing that killed Robert Fassnacht and injured four others on August 24, 1970. Co defendants include Karleton Armstrong and two others sought by federal authorities. The New York Post notes the paper’s long history.
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San Francisco
UPI
David Fine
FBI
Madison
Wis
University of Wisconsin
Fine
San Rafael
Here
U.S
Richard Goldsmith
William J. Lewes
Goldsmith
Wisconsin
Students For A Democratic Society
SDS
University of Delaware
Army Mathematics Research Center
Robert Fassnacht
Karleton L. Armstrong
Dwight A. Armstrong
Earleton’s Co
Frederick Burt
Transfer in slam bidding via Jacoby sequence explained
A Florida reader asks how to use the Jacoby transfer toward a slam. Start with the transfer to the agreed suit, then a game forcing jump shift to a new suit to show two suits or a feature. South transfers to hearts, then supports with a three diamond bid to force game, inviting slam.
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South
North
Schuyler Rotary Honors Seckmann Student of the Week
Schuyler Rotary Club named Dick Seckman student of the week at a Wednesday meeting. Biology and physiology instructor Virgil King presented Seckman, praising his scholastic rank, athletic achievement, and musical talent as the son of Mr and Mrs Jack Seckman of Schuyler.
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27Th Avenue
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Polk County Extension
Thomas Paine
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New York Post
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Leonhard and
Laverne
Mohrman
Al-Fa Meal Co
Conyers Auction CO
Don Conyers
By Oswald
James Jacoby
Sig
Florida
Eiah
Schuyler
Rotary
Seckmann
Fleischer Rexall
S&h
Jcpenney Super Bargains
Bottoms
S-M-L
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